# Allow incoming email for automatic groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-incoming-email-for-automatic-groups/399611
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** groups, email-in
**Created:** [March 31, 2026, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-incoming-email-for-automatic-groups/399611 "2026-03-31T07:30:01Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-incoming-email-for-automatic-groups/399611/1 "2026-03-31T07:30:01Z")

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Per [Setting an incoming e-mail address for the staff group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-an-incoming-e-mail-address-for-the-staff-group/62724) it’s not possible to enable incoming email for an automatic group. This is also something that is not made explicit: for automatic groups the incoming email input is simply not present, leading to confusion for admins.

TBH I don’t see a good reason for this. Having to set up a second group and sync the members to it can be done but is cumbersome and, IMO, unnecessary.

Apart from the ability to email staff this can also lead to new use cases like a TL3 group that can receive emails.

Time to drop this weird restriction!

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